girls:
11 births since 2002
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
126 births since 2003
#4460 (3rd percentile)
overall:
137 births since 2002
#7602 (2nd percentile)
The name Aliyan is the #7,602 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 137 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,460 (2.7% percentile) for all time with 126 births since 2003. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2002.
Aliyan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for girls and 2003 for boys). Birth data for Aliyan is available in 14 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023 (12 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Aliyan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.0% of all recorded births being male. Interestingly, until around 2003, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2002 to 2002), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (96.2% boys from 2003 to 2023).
For boys, Aliyan reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #897) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Aliyan is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #897 (1.5% percentile) with 10 births per million.
For girls, Aliyan reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #893) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2013.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aliyan".
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Our model has identified 12 different pronunciations for the name Aliyan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 20.5% confident that Aliyan is pronounced as uh-LEE-uhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is uh-LEE-yuhn, at 20.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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